Nadezda Pisareva

Nadezda Pisareva, born in Moscow in 1987, was taught by Tamara Koloss at the Central Music School in Moscow, studied with Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and Klaus Hellwig at the Berlin University of the Arts with the support of a scholarship from the DAAD Foundation. In addition to her studies, she participated in the master classes of Arie Vardi, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Bernd Goetzke, Maria João Pires, Ferenc Rados, Stephen Kovacevich, and Matti Raekallio.

Nadezda Pisareva performs as a soloist and avid chamber musician in concert halls and international festivals in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, and China, among other countries. She won the silver medal and chamber music prize from the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow, the audience and third prizes at the 2015 Val Tidone International Piano Competition in Italy, and was a prizewinner at the 2014 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She has performed with the Casals Quartet, violinist Diana Tishchenko, and cellist Andreas Brantelid. Nadezda Pisareva frequently performs as a piano duo with her husband, pianist Georgy Tchaidze.

Nadezda Pisareva is a member of the foundation Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now in Berlin. Since 2016, she has been one of the pianists in the concert series Weltklassik am Klavier (World classics at the piano). Her debut CD is dedicated to the composer Robert Schumann. Her second CD was created in collaboration with saxophonist Hannah Stoll and Deutschlandradio Kultur, featuring music by Berlin composer Gustav Bumcke. This CD was created with the support of the Neustart Kultur 2021 grant.

Photography: Natascha Zivadinovic